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West Side Story
Posted by: Eunice on: July 29, 2007
Gee, Officer Krupke, West Side Story is 50.
Not many musicals make musical history. Once the template is set – the hoofing, the ballads, the knees-up at the end – you know the score, and instant familiarity beats innovation.
But the 1957 production that unleashed Bernstein’s fizzing West Side Story on an unprepared Broadway audience threw out [...]
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